Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Interesting use of Randall at the Blind Tiger

There is a really cool event at the Blind Tiger, NYC, this evening. They are serving Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA through six different Randalls. What is interesting is that it is not just hops in the Randalls this time. Instead they are going to serve the beer through a lot of different things that'll lend flavour to the beers.

I hope a report ends up surfacing somewhere about how this went... I'm skeptical about whether much of what was in some of the Randalls would actually be imparted to the beer, given the already robust hoppiness of the DFH 90.

Hard to say. This is all very unscientific as it is hard to say anything about the effects given the low number of tests. The cinnamon certainly did not hurt, but I can't tell whether it helped either. In any case it is a low-cost trick.

I suspect that most of the oxidation I experience in my beers happen because of oxidation that happen at bottling time. There is certainly less oxidation in my kegged beer.